This article was amended on 23 August 2022. SHUT EYE takes a darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them.
Zierra is working on a director’s cut of Filmworker that will include new footage that he and Vitali wanted in the film but couldn’t get done in time for its Cannes debut in 2017. But when he finally met Vitali to make the film, he was struck by “his kindness, humility and the fascinating scope of his story”. He later worked with the director Todd Field on his films Little Children and In the Bedroom.īefore making the documentary Filmworker, its director, Tony Zierra, said he and many Kubrick-obsessed fans knew Vitali for his performances in Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut, in which he played Red Cloak, and for being a key member of Kubrick’s inner circle. I talked to Stanley about working with him, and he said, ‘OK, let’s see what happens.’” That same year, he described his decision to give up acting as the “one truly, truly radical change in my life”.Īfter Kubrick’s death in 1999 Vitali oversaw restorations of many of Kubrick’s films and received a Cinema Audio Society award for his work. “Through him, I started seeing things from a different angle. Lord Coravante has not answered your queries. “Meeting Stanley was a turning point for me,” he told the Guardian in 2017. She didn't tell Kaylin to shut up, but the words were suddenly superfluous. Vitali’s next Kubrick credit was as “personal assistant to the director” on The Shining, though that’s only part of the story he famously helped cast four-year-old Danny Lloyd to play Danny Torrance and Louise and Lisa Burns as the creepy Grady twins (citing Diane Arbus as inspiration). Vitali was so fascinated by Kubrick and his processes that he made the unusual decision to give up on acting and devote himself entirely to the famously demanding director for more than two decades. In 1974 he was cast in Barry Lyndon as Lord Bullingdon, the stepson of Ryan O’Neal’s title character. He was a sweet, kind, humble, generous man and a vital part of Stanley Kubrick’s team.”īefore meeting Kubrick, Vitali was a rising actor in the UK, appearing in several British television shows including Softly, Softly, Follyfoot, Z Cars and Notorious Woman. “He helped me enormously with my Shining book and I’m gutted that he won’t see it. The film-maker Lee Unkrich also tweeted that he was “completely heartbroken”. Leon Vitali was one such person in mine,” Modine wrote. “There are people we meet who have a profound impact upon our lives.
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